Recent years have been marked by policy failures on crime, homelessness, border control, family support, education, and health care. A major cause is progressives’ ability to transform questions about ...

The Super Bowl on Sunday presented a useful illustration of an economic term called the “fallacy of composition.” If you were at the University of Phoenix Stadium and stood up to watch the action ...

In “Obama and the ‘Fallacy of Composition’” (op-ed, Feb. 5), William A. Kelly Jr. and Elizabeth Sawyer Kelly contend that free community-college education is a waste of scarce resources and will leave ...

The fallacy of composition is to attribute a common view to each member of a diverse population. Better to think about variation: imagine the different attitudes as circles on a complicated Venn ...

Economics can be a difficult subject area. I am going to shed some light on what I believe are the most common mistakes that people make when trying to analyze economic issues. These economic pitfalls ...

The systematic investment plans (SIP) of mutual funds offer a path to stock ownership that’s good for individuals. Collectively, however, surging inflows had the bad effect of causing stock-price ...

Logical fallacies are flaws in reasoning. They are often called informal fallacies. It's becoming more common for people to call out these fallacies by name. You often hear accusations of people ...